From Tax Competition to Social Race to the Bottom? European Models and the Challenge of Mobility

Jean-Paul Fitoussi and Fiorella Kostoris Padoa Schioppa

Chapter 8 in Report on the State of the European Union, 2005, pp 207-231 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract In all the fields in which the European Union (EU) feels anxious to make progress, the welfare state seems to be the most urgent cause for reform. As the issue runs deep into most European citizens’ everyday life, it is only natural that it should become the focal point of the EU’s anxieties and hopes, at a time when it is torn between the erosion of national sovereignty and its elusive replacement by that of a federal state.

Keywords: European Union; Member State; Social Protection; Pension Scheme; Social Spending (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230006270_8

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